
PROSTATE and breast cancer are more deadly for African Americans than for whites. Now it seems that differences in the activity of key genes may be partly to blame.
Black men in the US are around than their white counterparts, and twice as likely to die from the disease.
Until now, socioeconomic factors such as access to healthcare have mainly been blamed. But at the annual meeting of the in San Diego, California, on 15 April, Tiffany Wallace of the US National Cancer Institute in…



